As Christian said, named queries are pre-compiled to SQL. With dynamic
queries, perf can be not good because for each execution, the JPQL request
is recompile to SQL, so parsing, creation of the JPQL tree then SQL
generation, and with your solution, you concatenate lot of String. It isn't
important for one request but with lot of request, you use more time and
cpu, for string concatenation, it is better to use StringBuilder that is
more performant than String addition or StringBuffer.
An other argument for named queries is that with dynamic queries, if they
aren't written correctly (it isn't the case for your code ;) ), it is easy
to introduce some malicious SQL code with parameters
my two cents.
Emmanuel
On Jan 18, 2008 9:57 PM, Christian Edward Gruber
wrote:
> You can get some benefit from named queries in terms of query pre-
> compilation and caching on the underlying database. However, most
> database flavors and hibernate providers turn criteria queries into
> named queries (parameterized SQL) which is then cached, so, on the
> surface I suspect the performance characteristics will be similar.
>
> Christian.
>
> On 18-Jan-08, at 14:35 , Rahul Thakur wrote:
>
> >
> > Thanks Emmanuel! Responses inlined...
> >
> > Emmanuel Venisse wrote:
> >> Hi Rahul,
> >>
> >> After few days to look at JPA, I'm sure now it would be good to use
> >> it
> >> instead of the actual JDO/JPOX (I know JPOX 1.2 support JPA).
> >> The code is very easy to write and to read with JPA.
> >>
> >> About your continuum-jpa branch, I have few remarks:
> >> - I don't think it's good to use directly some OpenJPA APIs. If
> >> possible,
> >> I'd prefer to use only standard JPA APIs so we'll can choose later
> >> the
> >> implementation we want to use (OpenJPA, TopLink, JPOX...)
> >>
> > Agree. The only place where OpenJPA APIs are being used directly
> > currently are the unit tests.
> >> - why do you use some Spring code?
> >>
> > Experimental. Spring has a good transaction management framework out
> > of the box.
> >> - we don't need to store the model encoding
> >> (CommonUpdatableModelEntity
> >> class)
> >>
> > Sure. Easily fix'able. :-)
> >> - can you explain dateCreated/dateUpdated fields? How are they
> >> managed?
> >>
> > These are for audit puposes, and can be used as range search query
> > criteria for fetching entities. These were an extension I thought
> > will be good. 'dateCreated' gets set when an entity is first
> > inserted into the underlying store, subsequent updates update the
> > 'dateUpdated'.
> >> - all the model is fectched eagerly and it isn't acceptable for
> >> performance
> >>
> > Yes, the model does needs review and tweaks to annotations where we
> > know we don't need to fetch 'eagerly'.
> >> - I'm not sure your Query "pattern" is good. I'd prefer to use
> >> named queries
> >> but maybe you have a reason
> >>
> > I think using a Query like we have on the JPA branch nicely provides
> > for a flexible construction of queries (i.e, only the criteria
> > passed in contributes to the query). I am not sure if such is
> > available with named queries; but I am interested to know why named
> > queries might be better.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rahul
> >
> >> That's all for the moment.
> >>
> >> Emmanuel
> >>
> >> On Jan 16, 2008 11:30 PM, Rahul Thakur
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Just wondering if anyone else got to the changes?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Emmanuel Venisse wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I don't have the time to look at it these days but I'll do it asap
> >>>> (maybe in few weeks :( )
> >>>>
> >>>> Emmanuel
> >>>>
> >>>> Rahul Thakur a écrit :
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi All,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Scribbling some quick notes on some of the toying around I have
> >>>>> been
> >>>>> doing with OpenJPA, Generics etc on the continuum-jpa branch[1]:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 1) Use JPA for persistence
> >>>>> Motivation behind this has been to investigate how this compares
> >>>>> to
> >>>>> JPOX/JDO for managing the model - both in terms on performance and
> >>>>> ease of use (Store APIs). Continuum model classes are annotated
> >>>>> with
> >>>>> JPA annotations on the branch. However, this needs a review as
> >>>>> there
> >>>>> are some elements (for example 'configuration' typed as Map)
> >>>>> that I am
> >>>>> not sure yet how to persist yet. The provider used is OpenJPA [2].
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 2) Refactorings to Store interface
> >>>>> Main motivation has been to keep the core Store interface lean and
> >>>>> mean (read extensible). The Store interface[3] now has 4 methods:
> >>>>> lookup()
> >>>>> save()
> >>>>> delete()
> >>>>> query()
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The lookup(), save() and delete() act on single model Entity,
> >>>>> while
> >>>>> query() will filter and obtain matching Entities from the
> >>>>> underlying
> >>>>> database based on the Query specified. Query implementations
> >>>>> control
> >>>>> how a resulting JPQL gets constructed and which matching
> >>>>> entities get
> >>>>> pulled, and can be easily extended.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> To preserve compatibility with the existing Store interface, we
> >>>>> can
> >>>>> mimick the existing ContinuumStore interface operations by
> >>>>> having a
> >>>>> facade that can prepare requisite queries and delegate to a Store
> >>>>> instance.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 3) Misc.
> >>>>> There are a few I am investigating:
> >>>>> 1) Spring/Guice under the hood.
> >>>>> 2) JUnit 4.4 (and Hamcrest library)
> >>>>> , but these are still in early stages.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am keen to get a feedback on what others think.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Rahul
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [1] -
> >>>>>
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/continuum/branches/continuum-jpa/
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [2] - http://openjpa.apache.org/
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [3] -
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/continuum/branches/continuum-jpa/continuum-model-jpa/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/continuum/store/api/Store.java
> >>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>